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Genesis - In The Beginning Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution

The extremophiles – microorganisms living at the edge of Life under very severe conditions (from our anthropocentric view point) - may point out possibilities of existing Life forms on other planets and satellites.   In eight sections and fifty chapters, the seventy-five authors cover subjects such...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seckbach, Joseph (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
Subjects:
Humanities And Social Sciences
Cell Biology
Humanities
Earth System Sciences
Evolutionary Biology
Cytology
Social Sciences
Evolution (biology)
Physical Geography
Geochemistry
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Hypothesized Micro-Environments for the Origin of Microbial Life on Earth
  • PART 6. THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE COSMOS: What can Life on Earth Tell Us about Life in the Universe?
  • Potential for Life in the Saturn System
  • Energy Sources for, and Detectability of, Life on Extrasolar Planets
  • Environments Habitable by Extremophiles on Earth, the Solar System and Elsewhere
  • PART 7. HISTORY AND FRONTIERS OF ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES: Cultural Implications of the Search and Eventual Discovery of a Second Genesis
  • The Concept of Chemical Evolution before Oparin
  • A History of Origin of Life Ideas from Darwin to NASA.
  • Chemical Evolution in Open Space: A Link to the Origin of Life
  • The Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitrogen and the Origin of Life
  • PART 2. THE ROLE OF PHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICS IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE: Moving ‘Far from Equilibrium’ in a Prebiotic Environment: The Role of Maxwell’s Demon in Life Origin
  • Life from Interface
  • Breaking the Paradigm: The Pattern of Life
  • Cyberbiogenesis and the EvoGrid: a 21st Century Grand Challenge
  • Constructive Approaches for the Origin of Life
  • Origin of Life by Thermodynamic Inversion: A Universal Process
  • Life Explained by Heat Engines
  • Computational Simulations of Prebiotic Processes
  • The Cometary Hydrosphere
  • In Situ, High Spatial Resolution Techniques in the Search for the Origin of Life
  • PART 3. THE ROLE OF SYMMETRY, INFORMATION AND ORDER IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: Disorder to Order, Non-Life to Life. In the Beginning There Was a Mistake
  • The Role of Information and Order in the Origin of Life
  • PRELIMINARY SECTION: Pathways to “Genesis - In the Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution”
  • Introduction to Genesis - In  The Beginning.-Foreword.-Origins of Life - Keeping Options Open
  • PART 1. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION: The Prebiotic Chemistry of Alternative Nucleic Acids
  • Cooptive Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Networks
  • Origin and Evolution of Self-Replicating Polymers on Mineral Habitats
  • Mathematical Models of Prebiotic Replication: A Primer for Experimentalists
  • Life without Carbon; Rob Hengeveld
  • [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life
  • Reality of the Emergence of Life-Like Systems from Simple Prebiotic Polymers on Primitive Earth
  • The Photobiological Regime in the Very Early Earth and the Emergence of Life
  • Prebiotic Formation of Peptides: A Markov Chain Approach
  • Atomic Structural Templates of the Earliest Life on Earth: Vibration and Lightning Experiments with Quartz and Amino Acids
  • The Origin of First Peptides on Earth – From AminoAcids to Homochiral Biomolecules
  • Chemical Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality
  • Absolute Asymmetric Reactions and the Origin of Biological Chirality
  • Energy-Driven Evolution of Prebiotic Chiral Order (Lessons from Dynamic Systems Modelling)
  • PART 4. PANSPERMIA: Recurrent Dreams of Life in Meteorites
  • Are We from Outer Space? A Critical Review of the Panspermia Hypothesis
  • Origin of Life and Panspermia
  • PART 5. THE FIRST STEPS OF CELLULAR EVOLUTION: The Dimeric Proto-Ribosome Within the Modern Ribosome
  • Oceanic Arginine Translator: The Origin of Life and Early Evolution of the Genetic Code
  • Tidal Cycling and the Origin of the Genetic Code: Implications for Cellular Life
  • Heterotrophic Model  Protocells
  • A Symbiogenic Way in the Origin of Life
  • Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life
  • On the Vesicular Origin of the Cell Cycle

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